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Gunman enrolled, left Utah college

The man believed to have shot four Grand Junction residents, killing two of them, on Saturday remains very much a mysterious figure.

Stefan Alexander Martin-Urban, 22, was reported missing by an aunt in Lakewood. She said
Martin-Urban had taken her Honda CR-V, but she declined to make a formal report, Lakewood police said.

Martin-Urban also lived for a brief time in St. George, Utah, where he had a short-lived academic career at Dixie State College of Utah. Contrary to published reports, Martin-Urban wasn’t enrolled in the well-regarded dental-hygienist program at Dixie, officials said.

He did enroll in January in several classes, but on Feb. 18 he received “what is termed a walk-away F” for failure to attend the classes, Steve Johnson, director of public relations for Dixie, said.

The classes in which Martin-Urban, a 2005 graduate of Lathrop High School in Fairbanks, Alaska, did enroll were introduction to writing; elementary general organic chemistry; college algebra and pre-calculus; information literacy, an online class; and mountain biking.

A large gap in his life remains between his time in St. George and when he moved to Lakewood about seven weeks ago.